James best and charles james knox



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HAT MIRROR. 5 No. 542,405. Patented July 9', 189.5.

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JAMES BEST AND CHARLES JAMES KNOX, OF BELFAST, IRELAND.

HAT-MIRROR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 542,405, dated July 9,1895.

- Application filed August 11, 1894. Serial No. 520,071 (No model.)Patented in England February N 3.713-

to be attached to the inside of felt and other hats and caps.

The invention consists essentially of a mirror secured in a frame, whichis provided with means for centrally attaching the same to a hat andwith projections for preventing actual contact with the hat except atthe point of attachment, as more particularly hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a hat-mirrorconstructed according to our invention asit appears at tached to thehat, the cover being closed. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the sameunattached. Fig. 3 is a top view showing a hat-mirr0r constructedaccording to our invention, the cover being open. Fig. 4is asectionalview taken on the line m on of Fig. 1.

'Fig. 5 is a detail view showing in part the means for attaching themirror to the hat.

The construction of our invention is as fol lows: A mirror or,preferably of beveled glass, is fitted into a frame b of correspondingsize and shape. its lower or back edge with teeth or projec- -tion's m71. Behind the mirror, and also within the frame b, is placed a plate 0of any suitable material. This plate is held in position by the teeth orprojections n, which, after the plate 0 has been placedin the frame, arebent down upon it so as to secure it firmly, as shown in Fig. 2. Theprojections m are allowed to remain extending out from the plate 0 in adirection at right angles thereto for the purpose of preventing the sameand its containing-frame from coming into contact with the hat, exceptat the point of attachment, as shown in Fig. 4.

At or near the center of the plate a is a proj cation or protuberance,to which is attached This frame I) is provided around in any suitablemanner the screw-threaded pin or stud cl, perpendicular to the surfaceof the plate 0. This pin or stud is intended to be passed through asuitable perforation in the material of the hat, preferably about thecenter of the crown 0, and to receive on its upper or exterior end a nutor button internally screw-threaded to engage with the threads of thepin or stud d and preferably externally'milled for convenience in screwing the same down upon the pin or stud d, and thus securing the mirrorin place.

Attached to the frame bby the hinge g, or in any other suitable manner,is a skeleton cover f, consisting of a ring-frame h, having an externallip or flange h and a removable .ringe' on the inside, which may besecured by the pin or stud k. Set into the frame h is a card, tablet, orplate j of any suitable material. This card is held in position by theframe it with its lip or flange h and the removable ring 11. card may bewritten upon, if desired, the name of the owner or the manufacturer ofthe hat or any other desired words being placed upon it. The saidcover-frame may also be provided with a projection Z for convenience inopening the same.

The objectof the upwardly-extending projections m is to prevent theplate a from com- .ing into contact with the crown of the hat 0,

thus securing a space through which the heated air in the hat maycirculate and allowing the same to escape through perforations p p inthe material of the hat.

We are aware that it is old to perforate hats to allow the escape ofheated air, and also to secure mirrors to hats bya central attachment insuch a manner as to prevent contact except atv the point of attachment;but we believe the use of a centrally-attached mirror provided withprojections, as above described, for securing at all times the properair-space between the back of the mirrorframe and the perforated crownof the hat to be not only new, but a manifest improvement upon thedevices heretofore used.

The purpose and use of the cover hand its contained cardj are to concealand protect the mirror, and also to provide convenient means for showingthe name of the owner or the manufacturer of the hat or any otherdesired One or both sides of this matter, one or both sides of said cardbeing used, as desired. The said card can very readily be removed andrenewed or replaced. The said cover when closed may be retained so bymeans of slightfriction between it and the frame I), or the hinge may beprovided with a spring, or the cover may beheld open or closed in anysuitable manner.

The device may be made of any suitable shape or size, and the frame,cover, back plate, attaching-pin, and nut may be made of aluminium orany other suitable material combining lightness with strength, or it maybe covered with leather, cloth, paper, or other suitable material, orjapanned, varnished, or otherwise finished.

Having thus described our invention, what Witnesses:

HARPER CRAWFORD, ALEXANDER ADAIR.

